The Italian Rare Biliary tract Cancer initiative (IRaBiCa) : A multicentric observational study of Gruppo Oncologico dell'Italia Meridionale (GOIM) in collaboration with Gruppo Italiano Colangiocarcinoma (GICO)

INTRODUCTION: About 90% of cholangiocarcinomas are adenocarcinomas with glandular or tubular structures lined by epithelial cells, with no bile production and with a variable degree of differentiation, arising in the background of desmoplastic stroma. The remaining 10% is represented by rarer histological variants of which there is little knowledge regarding the biological behavior, molecular characterization, and sensitivity to the various possible therapies, including molecular-based treatments. Such rare tumors are described only in case reports or small retrospective series because of their exclusion from clinical trials. This national initiative, here presented, aims to address the following knowledge gap: a) how much does histological diversity translate into clinical manifestation variety? b) are those chemotherapy regimens, recommended for conventional biliary tract cancers, potentially active in rare variants?Therefore, epidemiological, pathological, and clinical characterization of series of rare biliary histotypes/variants, for which therapeutic and follow-up data are available, will be collected.

METHODS: An Italian task force on rare tumors of the biliary tract (IRaBiCa) has been created, whose initiative is a multicenter retrospective study involving 34 Italian cancer centers.Clinical data from approximately 100 patients will be collected and analyzed. Continuous variables will be presented as median ± standard deviation, while categorical variables will be expressed in terms of frequency. Kaplan-Maier analyses will be used to compare disease free, progression free and overall survival, according to the different histotypes.

CONCLUSIONS: We expect to gather novel data on rare histotypes of biliary tract cancer that will be useful to support their molecular and immunological characterization.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Enthalten in:

Tumori - (2024) vom: 07. Feb., Seite 3008916231222761

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Speranza, Desirèe [VerfasserIn]
Sapuppo, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Aprile, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Auriemma, Alessandra [VerfasserIn]
Bergamo, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Bianco, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Bordonaro, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Brandi, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Brunetti, Oronzo [VerfasserIn]
Carnaghi, Carlo [VerfasserIn]
Ciliberto, Domenico [VerfasserIn]
Cinieri, Saverio [VerfasserIn]
Corallo, Salvatore [VerfasserIn]
De Vita, Ferdinando [VerfasserIn]
Di Donato, Samantha [VerfasserIn]
Ferraù, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Fornaro, Lorenzo [VerfasserIn]
Barucca, Viola [VerfasserIn]
Giommoni, Elisa [VerfasserIn]
Lotesoriere, Claudio [VerfasserIn]
Luchini, Claudio [VerfasserIn]
Masini, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Niger, Monica [VerfasserIn]
Pisconti, Salvatore [VerfasserIn]
Rapposelli, Ilario Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Rimassa, Lorenza [VerfasserIn]
Rognone, Chiara [VerfasserIn]
Rodriquenz, Maria Grazia [VerfasserIn]
Corsini, Lidia Rita [VerfasserIn]
Santin, Daniele [VerfasserIn]
Scarpa, Aldo [VerfasserIn]
Scartozzi, Mario [VerfasserIn]
Soto Parra, Hector [VerfasserIn]
Tonini, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Tortora, Giampaolo [VerfasserIn]
Tralongo, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Silvestris, Nicola [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Biliary tract cancer
Journal Article
Rare histotypes
Rare tumors

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 07.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1177/03008916231222761

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36815470X